Shikha Subramaniam
UX Designer • Art Director • Educator
Most recently, I was a Senior News Designer & Art Director at The Washington Post. Before that, I was a Designer at an R&D Lab (The Lede Lab) at The Washington Post. Even before that, I was a senior UX Designer at Code & Theory for 5 years. 
I am also an adjunct professor in the Interaction Design department at the Corcoran School of Arts and Sciences at George Washington University.
Born and raised in New Delhi, I got a BA in English Literature from Hindu College, Delhi University, and an MFA in Communications Design from Pratt Institute, New York. If you want to grab a cup of coffee and talk about design, art, or vinyl records, please say hello!
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Awards
2024 Pulitzer Prize Winner in National Reporting for "Terror on Repeat," The Washington Post.
2024 Society of News Design (SND) Award of Excellence for Shikha Subramaniam's Story Art Direction Portfolio
2024 SND Award of Excellence X 3 
for "There is poetry in everything, even a news article. Want to try it?" 
"Build your ultimate Thanksgiving menu?"
"The 40 best restaurants in and around D.C."
2023 SND Award of Excellence for Shikha Subramaniam's Story Page Design Portfolio
2023 SND Award of Excellence X 5 
for "50 years of hip-hop", "Space Dodgers", "3 Poets and 3 comic artists collaborate on ’identity’", "Meet the NFL owners", Noise colors"
2023 National Press Photographers Association: Third place in Online Video, Presentation and Innovation for "Destroying Maya treasures to build a tourist train" TW
2022 Society of News Design (SND) Award of Excellence for Shikha Subramaniam's Story Page Design Portfolio
2022 SND Award of Excellence X 3 
for "Ukraine War videos database", "Newcomers in Congress", "A neighborhood’s cryptocurrency mine." 
2021 SND Silver medal in Experimental Design + Award of Excellence, Design: Features for “The Tenement Museum,” TWP
2021 SND Award of Excellence in Design: Environment & Science for “Prescribed fires,” TWP
2019 Webby Award People's Voice Winner for The MIT Sloan School of Management website, Code and Theory
Press & Talks & Exhibitions
→ Finding Her Way to Design, and Pulitzer Prize-Winning Work
→ One country, endless dishes: A love letter to Indian cuisine

Speaker at SRCCON 2024: "How to use scrappy user research in newsrooms."

Speaker at Society for News Design annual conference 2023: "A play on news, storytelling through games."

Exhibiting Artist, Superfine Art Fair BK: 2020, 2021

Solo exhibition at Chinatown Soup Gallery, “The Hour Before:  a series of poems and illustrations."
Keynote Speaker 2018, Product School New Delhi 
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